Ok, while this isn't for an FE motor, think it's still worth sharing.
I will be doing the same work very soon to a street master manifold, so stay tuned.
A little back story, for awhile now I have been gathering parts to do a port injected FE using a street
master intake I've had on the shelf for years. I bought some universal fuel rails, injector bungs and a throttle body. The hold up was that I needed to find someone to machine the holes for the bungs, I simply don't trust a drill press to keep everything in line. A co-worker has a small smithy mill, offered to help. So I gave him a chevy torquer 2 manifold to practice on, but he didn't have much luck, he couldn't keep the intake held down good enough to his small mill.
So the project got shelved, and when I decided to buy an intake adapter from Jay that would allow me to use a 351C manifold already set up for injectors, I figured why bother?
Well, another co-worker is putting together a 429 to put in his 90 Ford F-250, while it's already injected, he wanted to use early heads and a dual plane, so I offered him my parts. Within a week he has managed to make some great progress.
First photo is my cheep eBay throttle body($160) on his new intake.
Second photo is the holes machined by a guy with a full sized Bridgeport, note that the holes are machined with a 15 degree cant towards the valves.
Third photo shows injectors and bungs dropped into the holes
Fourth photo shows the angle a bit better.
Still a bit of work to do, we need to find another "buddy" to TIG weld the bungs in place, we also need to machine the fuel rails. I bought a special reamer for doing the injector pockets in the rails, so that should be a simple matter of drilling the holes in the right place, slightly under sized, and using the reamer to finish cut the pockets.
Then we can trim the rails to length, tap the ends for fittings and figure out what we will do for a pressure regulator.
We are planning to run Megasquirt fuel injection on it, and I have a few ideas up my sleeve to make it look really clean and not clutter up the engine bay with a ton of wires.
I've ordered most of the sensors and connectors we will need, and he is planning on using a cheap e-bay distributor as the trigger. We will just need to lock out the advance on the chineesium distributor to make it work.
I am currently working out of town, but I told him to grab my old intake and get it machined asap, the injector bungs I gave him are long enough, we're thinking that we can cut them in half and do both manifolds. So I'm ordering up some more fuel rail and another throttle body for my intake.
Stay tuned
